Footage posted on YouTube by OceanGate shows views of the Titanic wreckage and chronicles a “dive experience” to the site in 2022.
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00:00A bow of titanic looms out of the darkness as our submersible rises, slowly.
00:12What looks like a large elephant trunk is in fact stalagmite structures called rusticles.
00:19These are formed when iron-eating bacteria attach to steel and sunken ships.
00:30Those must have come out of the centre hose pipe where the centre anchor chain would have come through.
01:00We're now approaching the forward railings of the very prow of the titanic and we can see more rusticles draped over those railings and a small little bamboo coral pointing forward.
01:30We're now looking into the weld where the huge centre anchor still lies in its place.
01:46Just above it you can see the crane that would have lifted that out.
01:52Age is taking its toll on the shipwreck and the railings are starting to collapse outwards.
02:02Coming into view as we travel along the port our left side we can see one of the anchor chains.
02:12And in the distance on the right hand side some mooring bollards and a very large bronze capstan comes into view.
02:32Still glistening and shiny after 111 years on the seabed.
02:43The anchor chains are now moving there towards the windlasses where they would have pulled them back down into the chain locker at the bottom of the ship.
02:52A second bronze capstan comes into view and on top of that is a memorial plaque that was left on a previous expedition in the past.
03:12Over on the left hand side we can see the entrance into hold number one.
03:22This whole deck area is known as the Fauxcastle deck.
03:33What looks like a wall there in the background is actually a breakwater or wave break as it's described.
03:42This would have deflected large waves that were breaking over the bow of the ship and deflected them away to the sides.
04:02Now we have a closer view of that memorial plaque on the capstan.
04:20We're now making our way passing number one hold and just behind number one hold are the steam winches that would have been used to lift items and objects out of the holds.
04:36There's a much better view of the wave break.
05:06And now we approach the fore mast or main mast of the ship which has completely collapsed lying across more steam winches.
05:35When I first dived on the ship in the summer of 2000 the main mast lay right across the well deck onto the bridge and now as we can see it has completely collapsed.
05:50It's very sad to see it like this.
05:54Looking down into the well deck we can see the doorway that would have stepped out onto the crow's nest.
06:02The crow's nest where Frederick Fleek the lookout spied the iceberg.
06:08The bell would have hung just above the doorway on that hook.
06:21We're now travelling across the well deck onto the electric cranes.
06:50And we're now rising up above towards the bridge area going over across B and A deck.
07:21The whole area of the bridge on the Titanic was made out of timber and it got destroyed in the sinking and all that is left in that whole area is the bronze telemotor.
07:35The telemotor was a pump that the main wheel was attached to and when the wheel was turned it helped the rudder change direction.
07:53This whole area is completely collapsed and destroyed.
07:58The memorial plaques go back over 20 years or more.
08:03The three on the left hand side are actually ones that I left in my dives in 2000 and 2005 and they are from Ireland, they are from Belfast and they are from Cove, Titanic's last port of call.
08:22Just there on the left hand side you can see a bent shiny bar.
08:27That bar we believe is the remains of the linkage that brought the steering wheel connection to the forward steering wheel in the bridge.
08:41This great shot gives us a whole panoramic view of that area.
09:04Now the wall behind the telemotor here is in fact and what looks like three windows are actually dummy windows that were placed into the navigation and chart room and the pilots room.
09:19They actually let light in from the trunking area that left air ventilate down.
09:28On the left there is the remains of Captain Smith's cabin which is completely destroyed now.
09:35It was quite intact when the wreck was first discovered in 1985 but nature is shaking its toe.
09:44We are now approaching the casing number one, the funnel number one was which would have gone all the way down to the border rooms and the uptakes for the smokestacks.
10:11A water tank behind that looms into view and again the remains of more ventilation trunks or fan trunks as they were called.
10:31And now we are just coming towards the expansion joint and we can see the remains of skylights and holes in the roof there and they then down into the Marconi room where Jack Phillips and Harold Bright sent out their messages, their SOS messages of distress.
11:01And we are now approaching the void or open space of the remains of the ground staircase.
11:15There is nothing to see of the ground staircase that was completely destroyed in the sinking.
11:23So all we have is just a gate going down into the ship.
11:32We will be coming back to that in a few minutes just to have a better look.
11:44That small wall there on the right is actually the entrance to the ground staircase, first class entrance which brought you into the ground staircase area.
12:02This area we are approaching now is the reading and writing room area and the first class lounge and it's also the area where the ship broke in two so a lot of this is quite destroyed and a bit difficult to make out.
12:27Just to the left hand side there is the void where the second funnel was.
12:39So beyond here there is really nothing else except the collapsed decks going right down to the seabed.
12:46So now we are on the seabed just near the broken area and lots of unrecognisable pieces of the ship are all around us here.
13:01We are making our way back towards the section that broke off where we see some quite extraordinary sights and that is of the boarders, the double ended scotch boarders that burnt the coal that raised the steam that drove the huge engines for Titanic.
13:24These boarders weighed around 90 tonnes each and the image we are going to see now of them gives you a great overview as they still are in position here where the ship broke.
13:39There they are there, you can just make out some of the doors where the coal would have been shoveled in by all those men who slaved for hours down on the bowels of the ship.
13:54Now we are back at the ground staircase and if you look very carefully you can see right down there two hanging chandeliers.
14:02Again rising up here we can see the remains of more ventilation chunks.
15:32We are now travelling along the port side again back towards the bow, the boat deck just there on the right hand side and one of the two remaining lifeboat davits hanging out.
15:52It gives you pause to think about the people who got into those lifeboats.
16:02The davits are just hanging in there in the darkness reminding us of the great tragedy that occurred.
16:20Now we are approaching on the starboard or the right hand side of the ship looking at the cabin room windows on B deck and all those white items and objects are actually bamboo coral.
16:43As we get closer we can have a very good look at those and also have a very good look at the rust and more rusticles draped over those windows.
16:55If you look intently at the window on the left you can just make out inside there some of the window fittings.
17:04The thrusters from the submersible are causing that dust.
17:09We can see some soft coral and there is a scuttle or a drainage area for water to pour off the side of the ship and that's an interesting little gate there.
17:22You can see the two hinges top and bottom on the right hand side.
17:26We are at the very forward end now here of B deck.
17:33And we are now just coming into view will be the well deck.
17:58Just below the bridge area are the B and C decks where the electric cranes and hulls number 2 and 3 are.
18:11As our camera pans over that little curved area we can get a good look at some of the estimated 3 million rivets that held all the ship together.
18:37In the background there is the other electric crane.
18:44We will get a better view of it now in a moment.
19:06And now we are panning away back towards the starboard side of the FOXO deck and we can see the anchor chains again.
19:23Some triple fairleads in the distance.
19:27The anchor crane again in front of us.
19:31And a little hatch there.
19:34That goes all the way down about 3 or 4 or 5 decks.
19:41And that wire draped over the anchor chain there is probably one of the ones that held the crane in position.
19:52And we make our way into the darkness as we think about where we have just been.